February 28

ABSENT? I EXPECT TO SEE YOU IN MY ROOM NO LATER THAN 0720 TO BEGIN MAKING UP THE EXAM. YOU WILL LOSE POINTS IF YOU FAIL TO SHOW UP. 

IB US History
Focus:


CW:
Unit 8 exam


HW:
Text pp. 574-79; 582-87; 589-91
READ CAREFULLY

Having a bad day? Stressed about tomorrow's exam? Watch this:

February 27

ESSAY #1 HAS BEEN ELIMINATED. 

IB US History
Focus:
Imperialism

CW:
discuss LaFeber article on imperialism
handout: Presidential foreign policies
review b-ball

HW:
STUDY
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Psych (27-28)
Focus:
Personality theory

CW:
return old work
return/discuss Unit 1 exam
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discuss: psychodynamic theory
video clip: how the unconscious forces affect consumption

HW:
RG--Divisions of the Mind and Defense Mechanisms (pp. 3-4)
DEFENSE MECHANISMS QUIZ ON MARCH 5-6

Time lapse video of one ship's transit through the Panama Canal.

February 26

IB US History
Focus:
Imperialism


CW:
DEBATE: Should the U.S. annex the Philippines?
political cartoon analysis: the Philippines War
notes: Onto the World Stage
video clip: TR takes the canal
handout: Platt Amendment and U.S. intervention in Latin America

HW:
Walter LaFeber reading (read and answer questions; incorporate this information into essay #3)
IMPORTANT READING!!

February 25

IB US History
Focus:
Imperialism

CW:
EXTREMELY HELPFUL FOR ESSAY THREE
notes: An American Empire
Spanish-American War (1898)
Philippines War (1899-1902)
the water cure
primary source analysis: Why did some American soldiers treat Filipinos with Brutality?
video clips: Writing the Wartime Experience

HW:
Text pp. 622-23; 625-30
EXTREMELY HELPFUL FOR ESSAY THREE
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Psych (25-26)
Focus:


CW:
Unit 1 Exam


HW:
RG: first two pages of the notes packet

IB US History

Focus:
Imperialism

CW:
define imperialism
discussion: what role should the United States play in global affairs?
global hotspots
primary source analysis: roots of imperialism
notes: Roots of imperialism

HW:
Text pp. 612-13; 616-22

Immigration

Try your luck at U.S. immigration. Good luck!!!

February 21

IB US History
Focus:
Immigration

CW:
test prep sheet #8
notes: immigration and nativism in Canada
discuss: illegal immigration and its impacts on the U.S.
video clip (from Discovering America)
video clip: Herman Cain--"electric fence"
video: DREAM Act
discuss: DREAM Act and tuition equity
repeal citizenship requirement of the 14th Amendment?

HW:
Text pp. 604-09
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Psych (21-22)
Focus:
Learning

CW:
video clip: corporal punishment in schools
graded discussion: corporal punishment in discipline
essay writing 101 handout
review

HW:
STUDY--BRING BOOK TO NEXT CLASS

Immigration

From my childhood:

February 20

STUDENTS MAY MAKE AN ESSAY APPOINTMENT TOMORROW MORNING AT 0725. 
IB US History
Focus:
Immigration

CW:
review notes about American life at the turn of the century
Powerpoint: immigration to the U.S.
video clip: Coming to America: the immigrant experience
citizenship exam
notes: Jewish diapsora in America
photographic analysis of immigrant/urban life in America at the turn of the century

HW:
Read: the DREAM Act and article on tuition equity
review the Paul Bennett reading: Immigration and Nativism in Canada

UNIT 8 EXAM IS FEBRUARY 28

Can someone please print me a tank? Thanks.

February 19

IB US History
Focus:
Urbanization

CW:
notes: urbanization in Canada
small group research: life in America at the turn of the century

HW:
SKIM: Jewish immigration to America by Boroff from the reader
READ: Paul Bennett article on nativism and immigration to Canada
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Psych (19-20)
Focus:
Learning

CW:
Unit 1 study guide
discuss the principles of operant conditioning
video clips from Zimbardo site
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discuss the basic principles of cognitive learning
video clip: Bobo Doll Experiment and the effects of cognitive learning

HW:
graded discussion reading/questions

Better late than never. 

Urban America

History students:

Here's a great video that addresses what happens when a city begins to decay and decline:

ATTENTION TUESDAY TESTERS!!!

DUE TO A STAFF MEETING ON TUESDAY I WILL NOT CONDUCT MAKE UP EXAMS THAT DAY. IF YOU HAVE FIRST LUNCH ON TUESDAY YOU WILL NEED TO COME IN AND START YOUR EXAM. 

WORK WILL BE DONE AFTER SCHOOL AS WELL. I APOLOGIZE FOR THIS. 

February 15--THREE DAY WEEKEND!!!

IB US History
Focus:
Urbanization

CW:
return old work
discuss Unit 7 exam
discussion: what makes a city great?
notes: urbanization
video clip: America's failing infrastructure

HW:
PA Linteau reading from the reader (urbanization in Canada)

If you received little edible hearts for Valentine's Day, check out where they came from. 

February 14--HAPPY BIRTHDAY OREGON!

IB US History
Focus:

CW:
Unit 7 exam

HW:
Text pp. 544-50
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Psych (14-15)
Focus:
Classical Conditioning

CW:
classical conditioning quiz
grade quiz
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discuss adaptive value of classical conditioning
discuss: learned fear:
Baby Albert
fears and phobias: phobia quiz and fears checklist
dental fears

HW:
Operant conditioning and cognitive learning reading guides--ALL
UNIT ONE EXAM FEBRUARY 25 AND FEBRUARY 26

February 13

IB US History
Focus:
Gilded Age

CW:
DuBois/Washington graded discussion

HW:
STUDY

February 12

IB US History
Focus:
Gilded Age

CW:
review notes
readings: Chicago and Tulsa Race Riots
notes: Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois and their vision for African Americans
examine the Atlanta Compromise Address
compare/contrast the two reformers
begin graded discussion reading/questions

HW:
finish graded discussion reading
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Psych (12-13)
Focus:
Classical Conditioning

CW:
(A class--due absence):
split brain discussion
quick discussion of the basics of classical conditioning
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discuss: generalization, discrimination, and extinction
in-class experiment

HW:
A class finish rest of the reading guide for classical conditioning
CLASSICAL CONDITIONING QUIZ NEXT CLASS!!

February 11

SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION WILL BE DISCUSSED IN CLASS TODAY

IB US History
Focus:
Gilded Age

CW:
notes: the racial politics of the South
video clip: origins of Jim Crow (Ethnic Notions part I--6:09)
take a Louisiana literacy test
racial caricature in cartoons and business-- (1:47)
Coon Chicken Inn--Portland, OR
reading: When Jim Crow Drank Coke
notes: Hellhounds
examine pictures of lynchings
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WILL GET COVER TOMORROW:
Strange Fruit
readings: race riots in Chicago (1919) and Tulsa, OK (1921)

HW:
read and answer all questions in packet
Spivey reading from reader "Shine, Booker, Shine"

Update

Students, my apologies for not being in class on Friday. That was my first real sick day since Nora was born over three years ago. 

Please read both of the readings CAREFULLY:
Text pp. 525-31; 534
Hellhounds by Leon Litwack in the reader

See you Monday. 

INTROVERTS--READ THIS!!

Read this article. 

February 7

IB US History
Focus:
Gilded Age

CW:
test prep sheet #7
discussion: are unions still necessary? teacher seniority
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politics of the 1890s
Social Darwinism
Populist movement
The Wizard of Oz and the gold standard

HW:
Text pp. 525-31; 534
Litwack reading: Hellhounds from the reader

History students

Please think about these questions tonight and be prepared to discuss them in class tomorrow:

Are unions necessary in today's world as they were a century or more ago? What has changed for workers and what has remained the same?

Are there certain occupations that should not have the right to strike? Why/why not?


Here's a story you can either read or listen to regarding teacher seniority. 

February 6

IB US History
Focus:
Gilded Age

CW:
notes: The Socialist Challenge
handouts:
antitrust laws
laissez-faire economic policies take  hold
video: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

HW:
Text
SKIM: pp. 516-21; 523-25
READ: pp. 534-40
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Psych (6-7)
Focus:
Brain

CW:
video clip: the developing teenage brain (emotional mood swings)
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Brain damage and its effects on the mind and body:
video clip: Phineas Gage
video clips: football and the concussions on the brain
high school football: Football High (start video at 29 mins)
vicious hit on RG III
Junior Seau's suicide
video clip: The Hit System
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video clips: Giffords before and after
brain plasticity: shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords

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(may save for next class)
discuss the limbic system
discuss split brain
video clips: split brain research

HW:
Text pp. 195-98

Psych students

If you don't quite understand the split brain phenomena, check out this video:

??????

Please tell me how this North Korean video should make me feel. I vote afraid.

IB US History

Focus:
Gilded Age

CW:
SAC: Was Albert Parsons a Dangerous Man?
10 Commandments for Workers
unions vs. management simulation

HW:
Zinn reading: The Socialist Challenge

Watch. Think. React.

The late Howard Zinn discussing the Ludlow Massacre. 

History Students

If you weren't able to get the most detailed notes from today, please use these links to aid you in that process:

Great Strike of 1877

Haymarket Square Riot

Homestead Lockout/Strike

Pullman Strike


ALL STUDENTS NEED TO PRINT OUT THE LINK BELOW:
Lawrence Textile Strike

INFORMATION REGARDING THE LAWRENCE TEXTILE STRIKE SHOULD APPEAR IN AN ESSAY RESPONSE. IT MAY ALSO APPEAR AS AN ID TERM ON THE UNIT SEVEN EXAM. 

February 4

IB US History
Focus:
Gilded Age

CW:
brief notes on labor terms
group conference before presentations begin
notes: labor unions and major labor events
instructions for SAC tomorrow on Albert Parsons

HW:
Albert Parsons documents (give very brief responses for accompanying questions)

IF ABSENT FROM CLASS TODAY, PLEASE EMAIL ME!!

ESSAY APPOINTMENTS CAN BE MADE STARTING THURSDAY AM AT 0720.
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Psych (4-5)
Focus:
The Brain

CW:
return forms
student information sheet
video clip: brain organization
small group research: parts of the brain/groups present
video clips: the teenage brain

HW:
RG: limbic system and split brain research

History Pupils

The Zinn reading is now due on Wednesday. 

Please, try to contain yourself when celebrating this announcement. Thank you. 

Labor Union Links

Labor union links

Unions:

AFL: Samuel Gompers

HHID=228http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=835

http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/gompers.cfm

http://www.ushistory.org/us/37d.asp

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/industrial_workers_of_the_world_iww_/

Lots of info:

http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/docs/019.html

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1050.html

Violence and the IWW:
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=5605

Strikes/Labor unrest

Great Strike of 1877

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3189

http://binghamton.37j32b1.remote.schoolcenter.com/education/page/download.php?fileinfo=UmFpbHJvYWRfU3RyaWtlX29mXzE4NzcucGRmOjo6L3d3dy9zY2hvb2xzL3NjL2JpbmdoYW1wdG9uL2ltYWdlcy9kb2NtZ3IvOTRmaWxlMTA4MS5wZGY=

Pullman Strike:

http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1029.html

http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/events.html (AWESOME LINK--GOES THROUGH THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE EVENT—USE THIS!!!!)

Haymarket Square Riot:

http://www.binghamtonschools.org/education/page/download.php?fileinfo=VGhlX0hheW1hcmtldF9SaW90LnBkZjo6Oi93d3cvc2Nob29scy9zYy9iaW5naGFtcHRvbi9pbWFnZXMvZG9jbWdyLzk0ZmlsZTExMjEucGRm&sectiondetailid=552

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Haymarket+Square+bombing

Homestead Strike:

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3194

http://binghamton.37j32b1.remote.schoolcenter.com/education/page/download.php?fileinfo=VGhlX0hvbWVzdGVhZF9TdHJpa2UucGRmOjo6L3d3dy9zY2hvb2xzL3NjL2JpbmdoYW1wdG9uL2ltYWdlcy9kb2NtZ3IvOTRmaWxlMTA4NC5wZGY=

Lawrence Textile Strike:

http://users.dickinson.edu/~mitchelk/Lawrence%20_Textile_Strike.pdf (USE THIS ONE FOR MAIN SOURCE!!)

http://binghamton.37j32b1.remote.schoolcenter.com/education/page/download.php?fileinfo=VGhlX0xhd3JlbmNlX1RleHRpbGVfU3RyaWtlLnBkZjo6Oi93d3cvc2Nob29scy9zYy9iaW5naGFtcHRvbi9pbWFnZXMvZG9jbWdyLzk0ZmlsZTEwODUucGRm

February 1

IB US History
Focus:
Gilded Age

CW:
notes: World of Work
small group research: major labor union events

HW:
Zinn: The Socialist Challenge from the reader
DUE TUESDAY